This is Puerto Rican Week in New York City. In the link attached to this entry, you will be taken to an article in The New York Times about Columbia University's purchase of over 5,000 photo images from the archives of El Diario La Prensa, the city's oldest Spanish language newspaper. You will also see some of the images that now are part of Columbia's collection.
Directions: Read the article about the photo archives and photographer Bolivar Arellano. Then answer the questions below in loose leaf. As usual, you may write the answer only, in complete sentences.
For the link to the article, please click here.
1. How many images did Columbia buy from El Diario La Prensa?
2. Why do you think that the article talks about it being "every week is Puerto Rican Week — and Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorean, Mexican and Salvadoran Week, too." What does the statement tell you about the changing faces of Latinos in New York?
3. Why does the newspaper call itself El campeon de los hispanos (the champion of Hispanics)?
4. According to the Executive Editor of the newspaper, why is it important to acknowledge the role of Latinos in New York?, How do these images help us to do so?
5. As per the article, what were the circumstances of Mr. Arellano's arriving in New York?
6. How did he manage to get his pictures published in the newspaper?
7. What was Mr. Arellano's "primary objective" when covering the news?
8. Do you think pictures can tell better stories than other forms of communication? Why or why not? Use specific examples from the article to support your answer.